Le Roi Peste by Edgar [Allan] Poe - 1925

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. First Edition Charles Scribner's Sons; New York; 1931 "A" 8vo size tan clothbound hardcover with blue title and decorations and dust jacket; 314 toned pages. The back of the dust jacket features a small photograph of the author and his biography. From jacket flap: "His stories concern love in the springtime, courting, jealousy, an accident, a lynching, old age, a death. Some of them are very short, yet the reader finds within their brevity all the flavor and mood of some American incident which, in Caldwell's hands, becomes a story - interesting, individual, authentic." Price sticker on fep. Jacket is separated into two pieces on front spine seam with edgewear and chipping, particularly to head and heel and edges; small abrasion on fep from sticker. Top and bottom of spine are bumped and the bottom of spine is frayed. Quotes are for illustrative purposes only and remain the property of their copyright holders. Thanks for… Read More

NY: Pantheon. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Top corners bumped, jacket grubby and has . several chips, one small water spot to jacket at center of spine.. [1951]. First American Edition. Hardcover. Yellow boards with title stamped in various fonts in black on front. Black cloth spine with title stamped in yellow. A comic classic of modern Irish literature, first published in England in 1939. Though Graham Greene championed the novel (his Pantheon front jacket blurb trumpets "A book in a thousand...in the line of Ulysses and Tristram Shandy." ) , and later book blurbs quote Dylan Thomas' mini-book review: "This is just the book to give your sister if she's a loud, dirty, boozy girl." ) , it was initially not a hot seller. All of the unsold first edition copies were destroyed during World War II bombings. At Swim-Two-Birds appears on Time Magazine's All-Time 100 Novels list, The Modern Library Reader's List of 100 best novels, and The Guardian's list of… Read More

"LITTLE PAUL" from the "Dombey and Son" of Charles Dickens. Circa 1850's (there is no date of publication stated); Redfield; New York. Illustrated frontispiece with tissue guard. Scarce volume from the 6-volume "DICKENS' LITTLE FOLKS" series which was "undertaken with a view of supplying the want of a class of books for children, of a vigorous, manly tone, combined with a plain and concise mode of narration." "With this view, the career of [Little Paul has] been detached from the large mass of matter with which [he was] originally connected, and presented, in the author's own language, to a new class of readers, to whom the little volumes will, we doubt not, be as attractive as the larger originals have so long proved to the general public."Condition:Clean covers and spine with no stains; 1" cloth tear at the top-right corner of the spine; horizontal crease across the front cover which is also visible on the opposite side of the board. Occasional foxing and staining to the pages (heaviest on end… Read More

London: Folio Society, 2012. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Niroot Puttapipat. Limited to 1000 copies [445/1000] with an original etching signed and numbered by Niroot Puttapipat. Hand-bound in vellum blocked in 22-carat gold, with vellum tips. Gilt top edge. Fine in fine clamshell box. Introduced by Michael Morpurgo. Illustrated by Niroot Puttapipat. pp. 195, [1]. 32 x 24 cm.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1932. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. Early printing of du Maurier's first novel with rare dust jacket. Boards in green cloth stamped in dark green on spine and front cover. Head of spine pushed and sunned, else near fine. Internally very clean. The dust jacket is from 1932 and states ''Her first novel, ''The Loving Spirit'' which we published last year...'', has a green and gold design with black lettering, a front pictorial that matches that on the front board, and the rear panel provides a portrait and short bio of du Marier; no price on front flap (probable book club issue). Jacket has light chipping at head of spine; spine faded; minor soiling on rear panel; in archival mylar sleeve. 365 pages. Du Maurier's first novel was written in 1929 at Ferryside, the du Maurier family's holiday home in Cornwall, located in the village of Bodinnick, just opposite Fowey. The Loving Spirit is a family… Read More

San German, Puerto Rico: Inter American University, 1960. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 8vo, 192pp (plus plates), printed wrappers. Rare first issue of this important little magazine featuring a stellar roster of contributors, including Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray as well as Beat notables including Burroughs (Schottlaender C13), Corso, Ferlinghetti, et al. Unmarked copy with significant bumps and some general wear.

London: Folio Society, 2012. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Niroot Puttapipat. Limited to 1000 copies [445/1000] with an original etching signed and numbered by Niroot Puttapipat. Hand-bound in vellum blocked in 22-carat gold, with vellum tips. Gilt top edge. Fine in fine clamshell box. Introduced by Michael Morpurgo. Illustrated by Niroot Puttapipat. pp. 195, [1]. 32 x 24 cm.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. Signed by Lauren Bacall on the title page. First edition / First printing. Black cloth spine, black paper-covered boards. Fine in fine dust jacket. Winner of an Honorary Academy Award, 2 Tony Awards, 2 Golden Globes, and a Critic's Choice Lifetime Achievement Award.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1932. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. Early printing of du Maurier's first novel with rare dust jacket. Boards in green cloth stamped in dark green on spine and front cover. Head of spine pushed and sunned, else near fine. Internally very clean. The dust jacket is from 1932 and states ''Her first novel, ''The Loving Spirit'' which we published last year...'', has a green and gold design with black lettering, a front pictorial that matches that on the front board, and the rear panel provides a portrait and short bio of du Marier; no price on front flap (probable book club issue). Jacket has light chipping at head of spine; spine faded; minor soiling on rear panel; in archival mylar sleeve. 365 pages. Du Maurier's first novel was written in 1929 at Ferryside, the du Maurier family's holiday home in Cornwall, located in the village of Bodinnick, just opposite Fowey. The Loving Spirit is a family… Read More

New York - London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. First Edition with the Scribner's 'A' on copyright page. Boards in green cloth with blue lettering and gilt striping on spine and front cover. Green top stain shows a bit of dust soiling. Interior is unmarked. Small worm hole near bottom edge of pages 35-70. Dust jacket edge-worn; some surface wear on spine; small spot of soiling on rear panel; not price clipped ($2.00); in an archival mylar sleeve. 334 pages. Scarce first printing with dust jacket of the first novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.